Could be done, but it sounds like more of a camper than a cruiser. I am looking for something which is equivalent in function to the Maine Cat 30 catamaran, where a family can live aboard comfortably for several months per year, but not permanently. For that, we need the cooking equivalent of an efficiency apartment, and space to move around in nice weather. Belowdecks is just for sleeping and bathroom.
Maybe it can't be done, but an inexpensive cruiser would fill a niche that no other design seems to have. I think the Maine Cat 30 is right around $200K now, and a harry version would sail rings around it.
- Gardner
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lucjdekeyser@telenet.be [harryproa] <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:
I found it easier to upgrade the BL than to downgrade the HP60 to get to a cruising HP40. Where the cabin of a HP60 is more catamaran style, that of the HP40 is more trimaran style.Raise the roof of the very simple ww hull of the BL to standing height and top off with a "front" window some ways of each bow. Widen the hull at about half height to have a V berth in each bow and in the center a bench seat extendable to a bunk on either side of the companionway with stow away table. Have the head between the V of one of the V berths and a microwave between the other V. Cold or wet weather conditions steering is standing up in the companionway, otherwise steering on the tramp.The lw hull would remain the technical hull.
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